Seeing the king bowing and saluting all of them, all the officers and soldiers of the Pingyuan Army were stunned. Then, there was a crashing sound, and people all knelt down on the ground. With tears in their eyes, they said tremblingly: "It's me.
Waiting for help!" "The king has killed the villain!"
Looking around at the dark crowd of kneeling soldiers, Tang Yin was filled with emotion. Now that he had basically given up any hope of marching westward to destroy Ning, it seemed that accepting Ning's peace proposal was the only way out. While Tang Yin was thinking about it secretly, there were guards beside him.
He exclaimed: "There is a ship! It's the warship of Ning Guo!"
After Tang Yin heard this, he raised his eyes and looked towards the river. He saw three large warships sailing slowly on the upper reaches of the Zhanghe River. On top of the warships stood Ning Bing, Ning General, lamps, torches, bright pines, and so on.
The three warships were illuminated like fire ships. When the warship reached the center of the river in front of Tang Yin, it slowly stopped. Tang Yin looked carefully and saw a chair placed on the deck of the warship.
, there is a person sitting on the chair. This person has a golden helmet on his head, wearing golden armor, and a red cloak on his back. Looking at his face, he has deep features, sharp edges, thick eyebrows, big eyes, and a ruddy face.
This person is none other than Changsun Yuanhong, who is "critically ill". He looks full of energy, high spirits, and arrogance on his face at this time. How can he look like he is critically ill? Looking at Changsun Yuanhong clearly, Tang Yin's head is buzzing.
After a cry, he finally realized that he had been fooled.
"Haha——" Changsun Yuanhong on the warship laughed loudly, looked at the Fengjun camp on the east coast, and asked loudly: "Can Tang Yin be here now?"
Tang Yin was not willing to be a coward when being called out by name. He separated from the others and strode to the river. He straightened his back, clasped his hands behind his back, and replied in a loud voice: "I am
The king is here!"
Seeing Tang Yin come out, Changsun Yuanhong stood up, walked to the edge of the deck, and looked at Tang Yin with a smile. Although he looked relaxed at this time, he could sit and stand, in fact, it was Changsun Yuanhong who was gritting his teeth.
He stood upright. Although the injury on his back was not fatal, it was still very serious. He could stand up now only because the guards behind him were secretly supporting him.
Changsun Yuanhong looked at Tang Yin for a while and said with a smile: "King Feng, I didn't expect you to come and give me a big gift again so soon. Last time you gave a gift to no less than 30,000 people. I wonder how many more people are coming this time?"
Hearing this, the noses of everyone in the Feng Army almost became angry. They could only nod their heads to kill people. Changsun Yuanhong was so humiliating and unbearable. If the warship was not far away from the shore, everyone would have been there by now.
Dang Shui killed him. Tang Yin was not angry, at least on the surface, he said with a smile: "Reciprocity is a courtesy! Your country gave me millions of people in the east of the river, and now it's nothing to give you thousands of people."
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"Hmph!" Changsun Yuanhong's face darkened and he sneered: "Tang Yin, do you really think that I, Daning, will negotiate peace with you and other wind thieves? Stop dreaming, that's just a tactic used by me to lure the enemy.
; Do you think that your subordinates are really monolithic and loyal to you? To tell you the truth, every move you make is under my control, haha... Tang Yin, next time your army wants to cross the river, there is no need to make a big move.
After all the trouble, why not attack directly and openly?" After speaking, he waved to his subordinates without waiting for Tang Yin's reply and shouted: "Go back to camp!"
The three warships turned around in front of the Feng Army headed by Tang Yin and sailed back to the Ning Army camp in a swaggering manner.
Changsun Yuanhong's words seemed like he was showing off with pride, but they actually had two purposes. First, it made Tang Yin think that both Shi Tinghan and Tan Yi were sent by him, and that the peace talks were fake, which led to
It was true that he had been deceived. If Tang Yin believed it to be true, Shi Tinghan and Tan Yi would surely die, and the envoys would be killed. This would be a great shame and humiliation for a country, and the peace negotiations that the court was so keen on could only end there. Secondly, differentiation.
Tang Yin's internal affairs caused suspicion within the Feng Army. Once suspicion arose and mutual distrust arose, there would be no cooperation on the battlefield in the future. An army without cooperation would not be concerned no matter how strong its combat effectiveness was.
This was Changsun Yuanhong's wishful thinking.
Seeing the warship where Chang Sun Yuanhong was sailing away, the officers and soldiers of the Feng Army were all itching with hatred, but there was nothing they could do about him. Gu Yue had a cold face, stepped up to Tang Yin, and said in a deep voice: "If it weren't for Shi Shi this time,
Listen to Han and Tan Yi, our army will not fall into their trap. Your Majesty, the general will return to the camp immediately and chop off the heads of the two thieves!" After saying this, he turned around and left.
Tang Yin frowned and shouted: "Stop!"
"Your Majesty?" Guyue looked at Tang Yin in confusion. Things were so obvious, why did your Majesty still stop him?
Tang Yin took a deep breath and said: "Use your own brain. If Shi Tinghan and Tan Yi were really appointed by Changsun Yuanhong, would he make things clear? He said this obviously because he wanted to use our hands to
Shi and Tan both died!"
"Ah?" Gu Yue froze, shook his head incomprehensibly, and asked suspiciously: "Aren't Shi Tinghan and Tan Yi ministers of the Ning Kingdom? Why did the eldest son Yuanhong want to kill them?"
"The devil knows." Tang Yin muttered angrily.
At this time, Liang Qi said: "There is only one possibility. The court of Ning State really wants to negotiate peace, but Changsun Yuanhong does not want to. As long as our army kills Shi Tinghan and Tan Yi, then the peace negotiation will be over.
With that, Changsun Yuanhong's goal has been achieved. In addition, if my guess is correct, Shi Tinghan and Qin Yi probably didn't know that Changsun Yuanhong was pretending to be critically ill, and Changsun Yuanhong wanted to use his critical illness to lure our army to attack.
, even with a stone, Tan and Qin were also deceived. This person's scheming is unfathomable."
After listening to Liang Qi's analysis, everyone felt a sudden realization. Tang Yin asked: "How did the eldest son Yuanhong know that our army would sneak into this place this time? Could it be that someone in our army really tipped him off?
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Liang Qi sneered, shook his head and said: "Your Majesty, you must not listen to Changsun Yuanhong's words. Although I can't guess why he could set up an ambush here in advance, what he said just now must be to make our soldiers fight against each other."
Suspicion. If we unite, we will be strong; if we divide, we will be weak! Once the generals of our army are distrustful and suspicious of each other, the combat power of our entire army will be sharply reduced. This is naturally what Changsun Yuanhong wants to see the most.
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Tang Yin was not a fool. He thought about Liang Qi's words carefully and nodded secretly. He felt that what Liang Qi said was very reasonable. He hissed and replied faintly: "That's right! Changsun Yuanhong is indeed cunning, and even I almost fell into his trap.
trick!"
Seeing that Tang Yin's gloomy expression had recovered a lot, Liang Qi knew that his words had worked, and he raised his hands to Tang Yin and said, "Your Majesty is wise!"
Tang Yin smiled bitterly, sighed softly, and said, "Send the order, and the whole army should return to camp!"
Tang Yin was not enthusiastic about the peace negotiation between Feng and Ning, nor did he want to negotiate peace, but now, he had to reconsider the matter. The battle of Zhanghe River has reached this point, and his side has no ships.
Morale was low, there were only about 100,000 of the 200,000-strong army left, and there was an unpredictable eldest son, Sun Yuanhong, on the other side. At this time, there seemed to be no other way out except negotiating peace.
The other generals had similar thoughts to Tang Yin.
Xiao Muqing, Liang Qi, and Ziying were originally opposed to destroying Ning. It wasn't that they didn't want to, or that they were afraid of war, but they felt that the time was not yet ripe. With Feng State's current weak national strength, it could only support a short-term war.
, once the war evolves into a protracted war, the supply of our own army will be a big problem, unless we can attack Liangzhou in one go in a very short period of time and annihilate Ning Wang Yanchu and all the ministers in the Ning Dynasty, but this possibility is slim.
Back at the Fengjun camp, as soon as Tang Yin entered the Chinese military tent, Xiao Muqing, Liang Qi, and Ziying followed him. Neither Xiao nor Liang spoke, but kept talking to Ziying. Ziying understood that these two
The position allowed him to go to the king again. He cupped his hands towards Tang Yin and said, "Your Majesty..."
"Well?" Tang Yin turned around, glanced at the three of them, and finally his eyes fell on Ziying and asked: "Ziying, what's the matter with you?"
"Your Majesty, our army can no longer fight in this battle!" Ziying said seriously: "When we regained Hedong, our army of 400,000 soldiers now only has less than 200,000 left, especially in the last two battles of Zhanghe.
, our army has lost countless soldiers and generals, and its combat power has been reduced sharply. More importantly, the morale of the soldiers has been destroyed by Ning Jun. If we continue to fight, our army may..."
Ziying didn't finish what he said, but the meaning couldn't be clearer.
After suffering two losses in a row, Tang Yin's arrogant arrogance was extinguished at this time. He walked to the table, sat down slowly, then nodded and said: "Let's be honest, in your opinion,
What should be the purpose of our military?"
"Accept the Ningguo peace proposal!" Xiao Muqing, Liang Qi, and Ziying said in unison.
"In any case, our army is still on the offensive, and we are the one who takes the initiative," Ziying said: "We are negotiating with Ning Guo for peace. We are at the top and Ning is at the bottom. Your Majesty can take this opportunity to blackmail Ning Guo.
, as long as we have money and Hedong County to provide food and grass supplies, our army will be able to restore its military strength in just a short time. By then, our army will be regrouped and it will not be too late to talk about destroying Ning!"
What Ziying said was similar to what Tang Yin thought. The latter raised his head and sighed quietly: "It seems that this is the only way it can be!"
Unexpectedly, Tang Yin, who was so insistent on destroying Ning, actually accepted the peace negotiation at this time. The three of them looked at each other with happy faces, nodded, and then they all bowed deeply to Tang Yin and said: "My King Shengming!"
"Bullshit saint!" Tang Yin muttered, stood up straight, patted the dust on his butt, and said angrily: "If I was really smart, how could I be ambushed twice by Ning in the same place?"
Hearing this, Xiao Muqing, Liang Qi, and Ziying all blushed. Tang Yin was mocking himself, but he was also mocking them. As the commander-in-chief of the three armies, no one saw through Chang Sun Yuanhong's plan. The three of them also felt the same in their hearts.